Yakuza Rich
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- First things things. Like the Cowboys being in FIRST. Yes, ahead of the G-Men who are 1-2 in the division whereas Dallas in 1-1 in the division.
- This game did scare me. People forget that come about mid-November, road games become harder across the league. This is where those weird upsets happen. Not to knock Romo, it's just hard to be on fire as a QB 2 weeks in a row this late in the season...particularly when one game is on the road, outdoors in November. Combine that with this being the Commanders' Super Bowl and Fiammetta being out with the flu. It was a game that I really didn't like coming into. But, they got the duke and now we move on.
- I am a big Syracuse University fan. Grew up there as a kid, had season basketball and football tix. Hell, by my late teen years I was starting to look like Randy Quaid in Major League II from watching Pasqualoni football. I loved a quote on Saturday from bball coach Jim Boeheim in midst of the allegations against assistant Bernie Fine. A reporter asked to the effect, do you think that other teams will use the allegations as 'negative recruiting' against Syracuse?
Boeheim laughed and said he loves it when other teams use negative recruiting because then he knows if a recruit is buying into their negative recruiting...that's not the player they want on the team. That's how I feel about the Commanders 'suck for Luck' or 'whiffin for Griffin' or whatever. Like negative recruiting, it's a loser mentality and I have no worries about a team with a loser mentality. As much as I loathe the Eagles, I am more worried about them next season as they strive to play the best football they can play (and are not out of it, yet).
- I don't really blame the corners althought Scandrick looked poor tackling and Newman didn't play a great game either. But, the reason why Grossman was completing passes is that the pressure didn't quite get there and we kept using zone coverage. Ryan should've switched it up more and we do need more pressure from somebody besides Ware.
- The real embarrassing play on defense was the QB draw by Grossman for a TD. Oldest inside the 5 yard line play in the NFL. And we fell for it.
- Kinda the overall theme on defense, didn't look prepared. I was really excited to see the defense play given this was Ryan's second go around against the Commanders. Great D-Coordinators usually do well the 2nd time around on teams (the late Jim Johnson was fantastic at this). But, Ryan was out-coached by Kyle freaking Shanahan.
- This is the type of play we need to see from Romo. First, he did NOT have his A game on him. He missed some key passes early and wasn't that accurate on a lot of throws. He also will be responsible for 2 sacks on coach's film (Fletcher and the sack given up by Tyron, which Romo held onto the ball too long). But, he didn't press too hard, he still made throws from the pocket and was willing to make plays outside the pocket. Furthermore, he didn't turn the ball over. That's a big reason why we won, we were +2 in turnover margin.
- We are +6 on turnover margin for the year. Haven't been that good since the 90's.
- I think we can learn from the Fiammetta era that this offense operates best with a fullback and being able to run the ball pretty well. Sometimes, offensive coaches never get that missing piece down. I think with Fiammetta and how this offense performs with him in there, we should realize that we need to have a good blocking FB going forward.
- O-Line I thought looked pretty good except for Kosier and Costa.
- What a difference a good kicker can make.
- A good win because it was a win. Skins fans can say what they want, but they would not be saying what they want unless this game actually meant something to them. And I can't imagine any true fan like being swept by their hated rival. It's really a fairweather mentality of 'I only root for the team when we get a good QB.' Well, nobody ever said that Skins fans weren't hypocrites.
YR
- This game did scare me. People forget that come about mid-November, road games become harder across the league. This is where those weird upsets happen. Not to knock Romo, it's just hard to be on fire as a QB 2 weeks in a row this late in the season...particularly when one game is on the road, outdoors in November. Combine that with this being the Commanders' Super Bowl and Fiammetta being out with the flu. It was a game that I really didn't like coming into. But, they got the duke and now we move on.
- I am a big Syracuse University fan. Grew up there as a kid, had season basketball and football tix. Hell, by my late teen years I was starting to look like Randy Quaid in Major League II from watching Pasqualoni football. I loved a quote on Saturday from bball coach Jim Boeheim in midst of the allegations against assistant Bernie Fine. A reporter asked to the effect, do you think that other teams will use the allegations as 'negative recruiting' against Syracuse?
Boeheim laughed and said he loves it when other teams use negative recruiting because then he knows if a recruit is buying into their negative recruiting...that's not the player they want on the team. That's how I feel about the Commanders 'suck for Luck' or 'whiffin for Griffin' or whatever. Like negative recruiting, it's a loser mentality and I have no worries about a team with a loser mentality. As much as I loathe the Eagles, I am more worried about them next season as they strive to play the best football they can play (and are not out of it, yet).
- I don't really blame the corners althought Scandrick looked poor tackling and Newman didn't play a great game either. But, the reason why Grossman was completing passes is that the pressure didn't quite get there and we kept using zone coverage. Ryan should've switched it up more and we do need more pressure from somebody besides Ware.
- The real embarrassing play on defense was the QB draw by Grossman for a TD. Oldest inside the 5 yard line play in the NFL. And we fell for it.
- Kinda the overall theme on defense, didn't look prepared. I was really excited to see the defense play given this was Ryan's second go around against the Commanders. Great D-Coordinators usually do well the 2nd time around on teams (the late Jim Johnson was fantastic at this). But, Ryan was out-coached by Kyle freaking Shanahan.
- This is the type of play we need to see from Romo. First, he did NOT have his A game on him. He missed some key passes early and wasn't that accurate on a lot of throws. He also will be responsible for 2 sacks on coach's film (Fletcher and the sack given up by Tyron, which Romo held onto the ball too long). But, he didn't press too hard, he still made throws from the pocket and was willing to make plays outside the pocket. Furthermore, he didn't turn the ball over. That's a big reason why we won, we were +2 in turnover margin.
- We are +6 on turnover margin for the year. Haven't been that good since the 90's.
- I think we can learn from the Fiammetta era that this offense operates best with a fullback and being able to run the ball pretty well. Sometimes, offensive coaches never get that missing piece down. I think with Fiammetta and how this offense performs with him in there, we should realize that we need to have a good blocking FB going forward.
- O-Line I thought looked pretty good except for Kosier and Costa.
- What a difference a good kicker can make.
- A good win because it was a win. Skins fans can say what they want, but they would not be saying what they want unless this game actually meant something to them. And I can't imagine any true fan like being swept by their hated rival. It's really a fairweather mentality of 'I only root for the team when we get a good QB.' Well, nobody ever said that Skins fans weren't hypocrites.
YR
